Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
Colorado baker fighting ruling over gender transition cake
By Colleen Slevin — October 6, 2022
(AP) — DENVER (AP) — Jack Phillips, who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing to make a gay couple's wedding cake a decade ago for faith reasons is challenging a separate ruling that he violated Colorado law by refusing to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.
Americans support religious freedom — as long as it’s convenient for everyone
By Ryan Burge — February 15, 2022
(RNS) — Speaking in generalities about religious freedom will always win admirers.
Arizona artists win suit over same-sex wedding invitations
By Jacques Billeaud and Jonathan J. Cooper — September 17, 2019
(AP) — Though the state Supreme Court said its ruling is limited to custom wedding invitations, the justices addressed a larger question of religious freedom and LGBT rights than the Colorado wedding cake case.
Diet and free exercise: who gets to say whose belief is sincere?
By Brian Britt — June 20, 2019
(Sightings) — In the Masterpiece Cake case, Justice Kennedy wrote, “The reason and motive for the baker’s refusal were based on his sincere religious beliefs and convictions.” How did he know? How can we ever know?
Indiana tax preparer shows limits and liberties of our post-Masterpiece Cakeshop world
By Jacob Lupfer — March 4, 2019
(RNS) — Four years after the raucous response to Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a mistaken claim of religious conscience shows how a promising consensus may be forming.
Two cakes, two courts, two countries: Same result
By Catherine Pepinster — October 11, 2018
LONDON (RNS) — This week it was the British Supreme Court’s turn to decide a case in which a bakery refused to make a cake supporting same-sex marriage.
The lessons of the Masterpiece Cakeshop case
By Mark Silk — June 6, 2018
(RNS) — For culture warriors on both ends of the spectrum.
On the cake case, David Brooks gets it wrong
By Gene Robinson — December 7, 2017
(RNS) The most egregious assertion Brooks made is that 'it’s just a cake. It’s not like they were being denied a home or a job, or a wedding.'
Saving the First Amendment from extinction
By Joyce S. Dubensky — December 6, 2017
(RNS) — A win by baker Jack Phillips would begin the unraveling of our anti-discrimination laws, leaving people of all faiths — including Christians — at risk.
A Muslim perspective on the Masterpiece Cakeshop case
By Ilhan Cagri — December 6, 2017
(RNS) — Islam does not permit one to discriminate in providing services to individuals because they believe or behave in a way counter to one's understanding of Islamic teachings.
Christian bakers? Atheist bakers? Cake meets faith at the Supreme Court
By Lauren Markoe — December 5, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — As usual, Justice Anthony Kennedy appeared to be the up-for-grabs justice, offering each side reason for hope.
Supreme Court cake case laced with clashing ideas of religious liberty
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — December 4, 2017
'We can’t take for granted what ‘religious freedom’ is and what it protects,' says Tisa Wenger, an associate professor of American religious history at Yale.
Opponents in LGBT case agree: It’s not about wedding cake
By David Crary — December 3, 2017
(AP) — In a legal case with profound implications for LGBT rights and religion's place in public life, the opposing sides agree on this: It's not about the cake.
Considering the cake case: Is religious freedom bent beyond repair in this country?
By Tom Krattenmaker — November 29, 2017
(RNS) — It’s useful to realize that over the course of our history, religious-minority underdogs are not the only people to invoke religious freedom.
‘We got your back, Jack,’ conservative black clergy tell baker who refused gay couple
By Adelle M. Banks — October 23, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Their campaign includes provocative imagery certain to stoke the fierce debate surrounding an upcoming Supreme Court case.
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